"Turkey: Be Afraid
posted at 5:48 pm on February 28, 2010 by J.E. Dyer
The news of the last week from Turkey should worry us. More than 50 military officers, some of them among the nation’s most senior, have been arrested in the government’s ongoing investigation of the so-called “Ergenekon” conspiracy. That investigation, underway since 2007, long ago surpassed the alleged conspiracy in its heroic scope, having detained an increasingly unbelievable array of journalists, teachers, artists, jurists, students, businessmen, and soldiers alongside the occasional genuine terrorist.Analysts both sympathetic and skeptical have concluded that the Ergenekon investigations are intended mainly to purge the ranks of Turkey’s enduring secular establishment – in the courts, the schools, local government, and the military – and consolidate power for the Islamists in Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)."
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